SIBERIA'S VAST WEALTH.
Siberia is destined one day to become the richest country in the world, for it has a natural wealth so diversified, and as yet almost untouched, that it- has no rival in the old world. How vast this wealth is is described by A. Kaminer in La Nature. Before the war, Siberia, was producing from 1,000,000 to 1,300,000 tons of (lour a year. As a grazing country it: has no limits, and it exports large quantities of leather, tallow, and butter. Its forests are almost inexhaustible, and it supplies furs to all the world. Its mineral wealth can only be guessed at, for the greater part, of the country has never been prospected. But there are several enormous deposits of oil.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1696, 10 April 1917, Page 4
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124SIBERIA'S VAST WEALTH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1696, 10 April 1917, Page 4
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